Kind Hearts & Coronets is the film which made Ealing
studios synonymous with quality comedy filmmaking in Britain and also gave Alec Guinness a huge step onto the world's stage.

Guinness plays several members of an aristocratic family
who are being picked off one-by-one by an impecunious family member, Louis Manzini, who wants to jump the queue to gain nobility.

The plot unravels itself from Manzini's prison cell, as he
pens a memoir on the eve of his execution.

The comedy here is far more subtle than in Ealing comedies
which followed, but it's still a masterpiece of work which shares a place with The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers & The Man In The White Suit as the studio's very best.